Shot Pakistani Girl Released From U.K. Hospital

By

Jeanne Whalen

Updated Jan. 4, 2013 3:16 p.m. ET

LONDON—Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, was released from a U.K. hospital Friday after making "excellent progress in her recovery," the hospital said.

She will return in five or six weeks for reconstructive surgery to her skull, a spokesman for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham said. In the meantime, she will stay with her parents...